{"id":1488,"date":"2012-08-29T08:45:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T12:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/herdict\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2012-08-28T16:22:58","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T20:22:58","slug":"new-look-new-features-for-herdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/2012\/08\/29\/new-look-new-features-for-herdict\/","title":{"rendered":"New Look, New Features for Herdict!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When we unveiled our new home page design in April, I mentioned<\/a> that this was just a placeholder while we worked on a more drastic redesign and some great new features.\u00a0 Today I\u2019m excited to announce the release of the new Herdict site<\/a> and several of those new features.<\/p>\n

The first thing you\u2019ll notice is the new look.\u00a0 We wanted to redesign the site around the two most common ways that people use Herdict: testing sites and exploring our data.\u00a0 That\u2019s why our new homepage is devoted to four large buttons: two for testing sites (\u201cTest Sites\u201d and \u201cHelp Our Partners\u201d) and two for exploring data (\u201cExplore Real-Time Data\u201d and \u201cCreate and Share Lists\u201d).<\/p>\n

Testing Sites<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This is where we\u2019ve made the most changes.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve used Herdict before, you\u2019ve probably used our \u201cReporter,\u201d which loads a list of sites that need to be tested.\u00a0 We recently updated our algorithm<\/a> that chooses those sites, and now we\u2019ve changed the look of the Reporter itself.\u00a0 When you click \u201cTest Sites,\u201d the Reporter now loads in a pop-over, so that you don\u2019t leave whatever screen you\u2019re on.\u00a0 This is important because the Reporter is now accessible from almost every page without navigating you away.<\/p>\n

Once in the Reporter, you\u2019ll see on the far left a column of different lists that you can test.\u00a0 The first, with the Herdict logo, is the Reporter queue that you\u2019re used to. \u00a0In the next column you\u2019ll the upcoming sites in the list represented by screenshots.\u00a0 Now you won\u2019t be surprised by which sites load, and you can easily skip ahead if you\u2019d prefer. \u00a0In the main window the selected site will load.\u00a0 Clicking Accessible\/Inaccessible will automatically load the next site in the list.\u00a0 This redesigned Reporter makes it easier than ever to help Herdict and test sites.<\/p>\n

You can now also help organizations such as EFF<\/a>, Global Voices<\/a>, OpenNet Initiative<\/a>, Reporters Without Borders<\/a>, and Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0 By clicking on these organizations\u2019 icons in the first column, you can access lists of sites that they have identified as important to them. \u00a0You can also explore the lists and data about them on our \u201cBrowse Lists\u201d page<\/a>.\u00a0 Thanks to this new feature, if you support EFF for example, you can actively help them by testing sites they need tested.<\/p>\n

Exploring Data<\/strong><\/p>\n

We\u2019re also enhancing how you can explore data.\u00a0 If you click on \u201cExplore Real-Time Data,\u201d you\u2019ll see live screenshots of different kinds of data that we have available.\u00a0 In the top row you\u2019ll see different ways to slice our data relating the Internet as a whole, including maps, time graphs, the raw data feed, and our in-depth sheets.\u00a0 In the second row you\u2019ll see dashboards for the Herdict queue and our partner organizations\u2019 queues.\u00a0 Clicking on any screenshot will take you to the full-size version of that page.<\/p>\n

\u201cCreate and Share Lists\u201d will soon be a new way to explore data and interact with Herdict.\u00a0 We are extending the same code that lets our partners create lists of important sites in order to make it possible for all of users to do that.\u00a0 When that feature goes live, this will be where you can explore the lists that you and other users have created.<\/p>\n

I am really excited about all of these changes.\u00a0 I think they make Herdict more useful for reporting web blockages and learning about the instantaneous health of the Internet.\u00a0 I hope you\u2019ll play around with the site and keep participating.<\/p>\n

If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact me at ryan AT Herdict dot org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When we unveiled our new home page design in April, I mentioned that this was just a placeholder while we worked on a more drastic redesign and some great new features.\u00a0 Today I\u2019m excited to announce the release of the new Herdict site and several of those new features. The first thing you\u2019ll notice is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4481,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4LdGs-o0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4481"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}